The Worm turns into soccer dad

March 18, 2007|By Terry Armour

We aren't prepared to say that the NBA's former "Bad Boy" Dennis Rodman has toned down his act. He is, after all, hosting "Geek to Freak," a new weekly reality show that airs Fridays on HDNet. And the premise of the show is for the former Bulls forward--and cross-dresser and wrestler and party animal--to teach nerds how to be strange like him.

But get this: Rodman is now a soccer dad. That's right--a soccer dad. He regularly takes his 5-year-old son D.J. and 4-year-old daughter Trinity to practice in his Newport Beach, Calif., neighborhood.

"I was just at a soccer game for the kids," Rodman told Armour & Co. when we caught up with him a few days ago. "I walked onto the field and people said, `Dennis, what are you doing here--do you have any kids here?'"

The flamboyant Rodman, 45, tells us that's just the way life is for the Worm these days.

"I can be a family man every once in a while," said Rodman, whose oldest daughter Alexis is now in college. "I do have responsibilities in my life. Everything is cool."